Late husband's ashes stolen from widow

2:42 PM,
Jan. 16, 2013

George and Marilyn Schaefer

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It is a heartbreaking crime for a family already going through a tragedy.

A grieving widow, 71, returned to her Stonelick Township home this week to discover an intruder had broken in and stolen a wooden box on her dresser containing her late husband's ashes.

When Marilyn Schaefer was robbed Tuesday, she was visiting one of her children at West Chester Hospital. Her daughter, Pam Thomas, 49, of Milford, has Stage 4 colon cancer that has metasticized to her liver. ...